Housing and Town Planning

UN General Assembly, Housing and Town Planning, A/RES/53, UN General Assembly, 14 December 1946, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1946/en/7882 [accessed 20 September 2024]
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I. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE JOINT SECOND AND THIRD COMMITTEE
53. Housing and Town Planning

The General Assembly, Considering the magnitude and gravity of housing problems in various parts of the world, and the advisability of providing for exchange of views and constant liaison between the technical experts of the various nations; Considering the recommendation already made by the special meeting on emergency housing problems convened by the Emergency Economic Committee for Europe, and also of the recommendations of the Housing Sub-Committee of the Emergency Economic Committee for Europe;[1] Decides to recommend to the Economic and Social Council that it instruct the appropriate Commissions to expedite their study of housing problems, with-special reference to the organization and unification of international exchanges of information relating, in particular, to town planning principles, building techniques and the climatic, economic and financial, legal and legislative aspects of housing and town planning questions; and to consider the desirability of holding an international conference of experts to advise on the need for establishing an international mechanism to collate such information, lay down guiding principles for new technical research on materials, methods of use and prefabrication, and to define standards capable of general application. Sixty-fifth plenary meeting,
14 December 1946.
[1] Document E/156 and E/156/Add.2.
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